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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1959
Page
2
Fragmentary OCR text mentions inflation fight and medicines. No clear event, people, or organizations readable. Summary limited to available words noting economic struggle and medicines.
Taneytown report from correspondent John Leester notes team activity and local race results with sparse details and a brief update on standings.
The Sykesville Volunteer Fire Company held its annual meeting January 21 with officers reelected and remarks on the year 1959. President Frank T. Dusham led the pledge, officers and patrol leaders were named, and a report of 105 fire alarms plus 152 ambulance calls outlined company activity and finances.
Mr and Mrs Frederick A Miller were married Sunday January 4 at the home of E S Edwards in Marionette Park Illinois The groom a 1957 Wabash College graduate and U S Army Reserve member plans a Chicago residency with Walgreens The bride Gale Wray is daughter of Robert J Wray Crawfordsville The couple plan a Mexico honeymoon and future Chicago home with attendants Gerald Boskey Chicago and the Miller families attended
A Frederick reader questions the Motherwell affair and asks whether city and county officers traveled to Las Vegas at public expense and who bore the economic burden. The letter cites Joe Eisenhauer on newspaper ethics and urges public scrutiny. The piece references a January 28 News and Post report and calls for accountability to protect fellow citizens.
Foreman of the grand jury for the circuit court is Ames Lee Simmons with Chief Judge Worthington on the bench. A public meeting by the Frederick County Anti Silcam League is set at the City Opera House with Seaborn Wright of Georgia as the principal speaker. A large crowd gathered at Emmitsburg to hear Elian Evangelical Lutheran Church address by Rev Walter Lichliter on The Judgment Day. Community training center plans discussed for local high schools and business curriculum with commercial departments across Frederick Middletown and Ball towns. teachers listed for four schools.
Twenty years ago notes record the Western Maryland Trust Company directors elected with William B. Catshall as president. Urner was named Frederick County Bar Association president. Flood stage on Masonry River reached crest. county to fund lab equipment. Local church union service planned in Emmitsburg. baptisms noted in St Bernard's. Governor George Docking guest at Southwest Democratic Club. Andrew Fisher dies after illness.
A case of alleged duck hunting violations involving four men including a county commissioner will be heard next Friday. Charged after sundown for shooting on January 13 along a bay off the Choptank near Cambridge are E Roscoe Willey Dorchester County Board of Commissioners member Edgar W Jarstish F Tram two dermatologists and James R Jones resident near Cambridge. Trial Magistrate J Leslie Bradley at Viemms stated the accused.
Mrs Edwin J Titus spends weekend in Pittsburg with husband who pursues philosophy PhD at Carnegie Tech. They stay with her parents on West Twelfth Street. Mrs Titus is granddaughter of the late Mr and Mrs G Oscar Rhoads and Mr and Mrs Charles W Weddle. Birth announced at Frederick Memorial Hospital for Catherine Paupa Weddle, weighing seven pounds two ounces. Mrs Weddle is Ruth Gregg Route 1 Union Bridge. Mr C T Stamsbury of Morovia turns 55 on Monday.
Governor Tawes unveils a nearly 144 million dollar state budget funded largely by federal aid. Growth focuses on capital improvements including 14 million for long term projects and university, teacher college, hospital, and park expansions. The plan hints at a possible modest teacher pay raise and envisions a review of revenue later to confirm affordability.
Magistrate Paul M. Little fined William Gordon McArthur of Hamilton Ontario 500 dollars and gave a six month suspended sentence after finding him guilty of operating a vehicle while on a driving permit and failing to obey a traffic control device. McArthur was arrested January 13 after his tractor trailer veered around barricades, crashed through the second, rolled over, with his brother in the cab. no injuries. Also: Edgar L. Lewis of Cavetown found guilty of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence and failing to stop after a property damage accident, fined 100 dollars and costs. several motorists forfeited collateral for speeding and other offenses. Officers Th. Brown, Trooper W. F. Davis, and Police Chief Simmons led arrests in Thurmont.
The Emmitsburg Homemakers met January 23 at 1 30 p m at Mrs George Eyater's home. Mrs Robert Fitez led with The Lord's Prayer and the Homemakers Creed. Five hostesses were named for the next five meetings and members planned to collect periodicals for a student in Kerala, India. The February gathering is set for Mrs Kenneth Wagaman's on February 25 at 1 p m with Mrs Robert Marshall as co hostess.
The Thurmont community notes celebrating a 52 year wedding anniversary at the Domingue home. Obituaries list Mrs Cheries W Grama of Hagerstown and Mr J Hahn of Taneytown among the deceased, with services in Hagerstown Emmitsburg and Taneytown. Survivors include numerous children grandchildren and relatives across Maryland and nearby areas. Services set for weeks ahead at local churches and funeral homes with interments in church cemeteries.
A fragmented obituary note records a family line naming ten children and four grandchildren among direct descendants. It mentions no great grandchildren and adds a mysterious Seneph DB phrase, with garbled trailing words.
Side Glances General Hospital notes a 76 year old survivor with funeral at Brunswick Episcopal Church and burial at St Mark's Petersville. Ada Florence Shultz obituary lists 79 with services at the First Baptist Church and Mt Olivet Cemetery. Roy Dotter Smith of Baltimore County dies after seven months illness. survivors include wife Carrie and two sons, with relatives in Smithsburg Rouzerville and Hagerstown.
The 24 hour period ending at 3 a m tracked temperatures and rainfall across regions. Data compiled by The Associated Press includes highs and lows, amounts of precipitation, and notable weather patterns observed by observers.
Funeral services for Lucas Albert Lambert of New Windsor were held Friday at 1 p.m. at the New Windsor funeral home. Rev. John H. Hoch officiated with interment in Pipe Creek cemetery near New Windsor. Bearers were Francis Reese, Charles Green, Charles Bachman, Raymond Brows, Howiyard Roop and John Strine.
Irving Machiz, director of Internal Revenue for the Baltimore District, explains that taxpayers may claim a $600 exemption for each dependent on the 1944 income tax reform. The exemption applies to children who receive more than half their support from the taxpayer and are under 12, or up to age 19 if a full-time student and earning at least $300. If the dependent has income and is not a full-time student, the exemption may be lost.
Bonds totaling 15000 dollars for the Peop Keadpsville water system were awarded to Mercantila Safe Deposit and Trust Company, the Baker Wetson Company, and Stem Brothers and Boyce. Road work is noted with 4 percent and coal freeny figures from 1902 oreugh.
Frederick Toastmaster's Club No. 1082 held a regular meeting at Hotel Frederick with Thomas A. Garner presiding. New members Clarence Whichard John Thrasher and Ervin Price were inducted by the Toastmaster of the evening.
Baltimore hosts a new American Optical laboratory on February 2 at 2211 Maryland Avenue serving Belair Havre de Grace Laurel Catonsville Hagers town and Frederick. The facility introduces motorized delivery wire mesh surfacing air cleaning lenses and an integrated surfacing system with expanded staff and products from diagnostics to office furniture.
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